... /lobster65/lob65-canadian-spy-agency.pdf>. in an interview.'. . .if you look at the United States and the kinds of actions that John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson could carry out in Vietnam, they were possible because of almost complete lack of public attention. ' 14 Chomsky merges LBJ and JFK as if they had the same intentions and policies. When I read this I thought, 'I'll bet Jim DiEugenio has a go at this. ' And he has; oh boy, has he ever. His 'Noam Chomsky Needs an Intervention' begins: 'Does Noam Chomsky have permanent foot-in-mouth disease? It ...

... agent. The assassination conspiracy was leaky. And this suggests very strongly that we are dealing with something other than a professional job by the intelligence services or the Pentagon. It is hard to imagine the pros holding anything more closely than the assassination of a president. ' In the beginning I now can't remember how I first came across the LBJ-dunit thesis. Perhaps it was the reference to it in Michael Milan's The Squad: the US Government's Secret Alliance with Organized Crime.7 The pseudonymous author of that book 5I discount James Files' story. That, as Garrick Alder has shown, is an invention. See <https://www.lobster-magazine ...

... cleaned out. ' What was in the safe at the Brookings Institute that made the President of the USA demand burglaries, over and over again, to his senior aides? That aspect of the Watergate story didn't appear to interest Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein as they pressed ahead with their investigation of the Watergate burglary itself. LBJ knew In office between 1963 and 1968, Lyndon Baines Johnson was the first US president who routinely tape-recorded his meetings and telephone conversations. One tape from the last days of the Johnson administration is far more incriminating than the so-called 'smoking gun' tape that led to Nixon's resignation in 1974. At 9.18 pm ...

... to have thought that editing and proof-reading was necessary. 9 He suspected that he and the two other 'tramps' – Harrelson and the other man he knew as Montoya – were in position to act as back-up fall-guys in the event that the framing of Oswald went wrong. 10 See note 7. Hunt named LBJ, David Morales, Frank Sturgis, David Attlee Phillips, William Harvey and Antonio Veciana, all of whom have cropped up in the research. The new name was Cord Meyer who had never, to my knowledge, been linked to the assassination before. 11 Though precisely how senior isn't quite clear. Accounts vary and there is nothing ...

... and New York: Bloomsbury; 2016, h/b , £18.99 P rofessor Mellen spoke about 'Mac' Wallace, who is one of the two subjects of this book, a couple of years ago in a lecture,1 and it was clear when this book was announced that it was going to try and debunk the LBJ-dunnit thesis in the JFK assassination. In Mellen's view, that thesis has just two planks: the fingerprint of Malcolm 'Mac' Wallace apparently found on the 6th floor of the Texas School Book Depository (TSBD hereafter) just after the assassination and the allegations of the late Billie Sol Estes. The fingerprint issue is dealt with by ...

... , elsewhere in the world his employers were acting as the global enforcer for American capital and the piles of peasant bodies were growing. There are only two things which raised my eyebrows. The first is the author's claim that in the summer of 1962 JFK approved the plan to run the coup in Brazil which actually happened in 1964, under LBJ. Whitney cites Tim Weiner's Legacy of Ashes (Doubleday, 2007) which shows that JFK was discussing discussing the possibility of allowing a military coup in Brazil and approved spending millions of dollars there to undermine the Brazilian president, Joao Goulart. JFK may indeed have approved the coup plan but the evidence of that final step is not there ...

... >. 26 No doubt Friedman's 1976 Nobel Prize helped his credibility but that was awarded for technical work in economics, not for his simple- minded views on macroeconomics. See <http://www.nobelprize.org/ nobel_prizes/economic-sciences/laureates/1976/friedman-facts.html>. The LBJ-dunnit thesis The late Billie Sol Estes is at the heart of the LBJ's-people- dunnit theory of the Kennedy assassination. That most of the Kennedy assassination researchers do not take this theory seriously is due, in large part, to their not taking Estes seriously, because he was a convicted fraudster. Precisely what his fraud ...

... opinions, albeit those of a highly placed insider. Other possibilities exist: for example that the real assassination conspiracy was piggy-backed on the CIA stunt, a fake assassination attempt to be blamed on apparent Castro-sympathiser Oswald, implicit in Holt's tale of the smooth-bore rifle firing Mannlicher-Carcano rounds.3 4 If the LBJ-dunnit thesis is correct, this means either that, at some level CIA personnel co-operated with the Johnson people, or that the Johnson gang heard of the planned CIA operation and exploited it. The latter seems more likely 32 There is a long discussion of 'Was it Lansdale? ' at <http://educationforum ...